Reading the shelf…
Forest runs 2 products across 2 categories, stocked in 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is dried vegetables, at 2% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 17/100.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
2 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Forest (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
closest to Forest in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
every Forest product in stock, cheapest first.
10 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Forest· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Forest Mango Propitious Ice Cream · its most-distributed SKU (4 doors) in Ice Cream Tubs, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Andronico's Community Markets.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 51% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
route note: buying runs through a corporate program — typically a slower path than an independent grocer's buyer.
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.
Bay Area stores already carrying Forestthat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Ice Cream Tubs
open here: Dried Mushrooms
open here: Dried Mushrooms
open here: Dried Mushrooms
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Forest sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.